Michael Easton

FTR shattering letter about how the Conservative Government ignored the entirely credible threat from Putin in favour of feeding The City (& Tory Party) roubles👇 March 23 2022 Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), UK defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016 www.ft.com/content/857d...

Oh crap. I shouldn’t have said they were donors. Oh crap. I shouldn’t have said they were illegal. Oh crap. And I certainly shouldn’t have rattled off all of their names in the space of thirty seconds. Ah. It’s too woke today.

An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface

Magnificent. Just shared it on the wireless.

Whoopsie daisy. 🤣😂🤣😂

one of the supposedly damning docs the White House released tonight says Russia tried to undermine BIDEN. Also says China "prefers that President Trump be defeated" but actually "Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election" (!)

“Dude, even I don’t put my own face on the money.”

Well, I've been affected by the Bungie layoffs, and I guess I'm now looking for work. I'm a senior narrative designer on Destiny 2. I'm going to thread a little list of stuff I've done on the game; normally I go out of my way to avoid attention, but today I'd appreciate reposts.

"for now we must treat this claim as unsubstantiated unless and until some further information emerges". @ciaranm.bsky.social, former Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, on Farage's claims of Russian hacking. www.linkedin.com/posts/cyberc...

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

One of most destructive acts of the Cameron-Osborne era was the decision to target austerity on local government.

I wrote this about Boris Johnson in 2021. It also applies to those, like Nigel Farage, who aspire to become prime minister. When a candidate for high office is taking millions of pounds in personal gifts, that is not a private matter. gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2021/05/forg...

Looked at another way: Leave/Right bloc: 47% ; Remain/Left bloc 51% But Remain/Left bloc more evenly split despite being bigger, so Leave/Right bloc does better under FPP. As in 2019 with Johnson's Leave coalition. But that could change if left bloc vote coalesces nationally or locally

15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

a visual depiction of Fox News's commentary tonight

A Brief History of People Have Lost Their Sense of Humour 🧵

Does it work properly? No. Are the people making it acting in good faith? No. Have they ensured it can't be used maliciously? No. Does it make people's lives better? No. Will it make people's lives better? No. Is it profitable? No. Is it popular? No. Is it harmless? No. The argument for AI.

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

🧵 by @ilangoldenberg.bsky.social:

Ukraine is holding back Russia and thus fulfilling the entire traditional mission of NATO without any soldiers or sailors from other countries. Trump is meanwhile demanding NATO allies leave the continent they are supposed to be defending to join him in a doomed adventure he chose in the Middle East

tomorrow Leavitt will be asked about this and sneeringly reply “he was very clear, only woke commies like you wouldn’t understand”

This is absolute gold

"AI is the future" The future:

i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol

Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed

I'm not a huge fan of Nigel Farage. He's a very very corrupt man.

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

I suspect the real reason Nigel Farage is getting so rattled by the racism allegations is that: 1) He knows he said all these things so can't properly deny them 2) He knows that he carried on saying them well into adulthood

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

An excellent, impartial analysis of Trump's incendiary January 6th 2021 speech. From the....BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

Trump has instincts but no strategy - thats why he can be beaten

To even allow the appearance of this — Starmer’s No 10 adopting Trumpian media management policies — seems extraordinary to me. Very depressing.

"the hard data suggests that the largest of the UK’s very real problems are no more being caused by mass immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth" on.ft.com/3IsyVVu @timharford.ft.com with his facts and reasonableness

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

Current state of UK political discourse.

Outstanding.